Creative Writing Services include media writing, feature articles, script consultation, outlines, treatments, screenplays and revisions.
Available for media assignments both online and print including, staff and freelance assignments, feature articles, interviews, book and film reviews, event coverage. I have reported on a variety of subjects from Animation to Zen. - BA, Broadcasting, PSU; MA,Communication Arts, LMU
- Post-grad work at NYU in Performance and Cinema Studies.
- Professional Certification in Creative Writing & Screenwriting, UCLA Extension
- East Coast location manager and UPM for commercials and industrials.
- Staff writer with Howard International Film Corp. Original scripts, revisions and voice-over dubbing rewrites for feature productions
- Instructor, Communications and Writing Courses at several colleges and part-time with the Division of Adult and Career Education for the Los Angeles Unified School District for 20 years in various venues. (Currently involved with their program at the L. A. Mission for recovering addicts.).
- Freelance Journalist: non-fiction articles, book and film reviews. Feature Writer for VFX World and Animation World Network.
Do you know much about the inner workings of 3D animation and visual effects? Well, neither do I. But that hasn't stopped me from becoming one of the best writers around to cover this fascinating yet highly technical field. You see, there are three aspects of my personal work ethic that set me apart. I call them my three know-hows. 1) I know how to arrange complicated material or storylines so that they are manageable. 2) I know how to interview well and write well. 3) I know how to make deadlines. There are many writers who can do one or two of these, but only those who can consistently hit on all three will make it as freelancers. That's why I'm not afraid to venture into other areas, either known or unknown, and tackle the most complicated assignments.
Oh, and one more thing about my personal philosophy. My favorite quote is from the song "Hands" by Jewel: "In the end, only kindness matters."
- Recent Non-Fiction...
Monthly Feature Writer on visual effects and annimation... Read my articles at VFX World. (You need to register, but it's free.) And Animation World Network
There's a lot here. About three dozen or so articles going all the way back to 2000. You will find articles on live-action features like The Last Samurai, The Matrix, Poseidon, Pirates of the Caribbean and, of course, animated features like Charlotte's Web, Hoodwinked, Powerpuff Girls, Spirit, Osmosis Jones, and articles on new technology and equipment, on the business side of visual effects, on emerging market expansion, on creative collaboration and on personalities such as Spawn's Todd McFarlane. You will also find articles on the Sports and Videogame side of the industry relating to top players such as EA Sports, Major League Baseball, The Super Bowl, NBC's SNF, NFL's Net Access, and FSN's Final Score.
- Creative Fiction...
PLAYING DEAD: "At Harmon High, football has just become a grave matter." A teen horror parody best described as Shaun of the Dead meets Friday Night Lights
POLES APART: Bored and frustrated with her life of drudgery, Santa's wife takes off with a traveling salesman and Santa loses his cool - which is hard to do at the North Pole. It's kind of like "Married to the Mob," only the mob is Santa and his elves. Set to the music from the Beatles' HELP.
LOST CLAUS: "Guess who's coming to town this Christmas...for therapy?" In a large city that seems bent on banning fairy tales and fantasies, a young boy struggles to hold on to his, wishing that Santa Claus will bring his separated parents together. However, Santa's in therapy, facing a severe identity crisis.
WRECK THE HALLS: It's "Animal House" during Christmas Break. The guys at Pi Upsilon decide to stay at their frat over the break and party non-stop right through Christmas and New Year's.
ROOT OF ALL EVIL: "What truly lies beneath Stonehenge?" A supernatural thriller (a novel & Nicholl's semifinal screenplay) that can best be described as Stephen King meets Dan Brown. Buried beneath 2000 meters beneath Stonehenge lies the Great Death - the Final Crisis of Man. And a gas exploration firm has just set it loose.
REBELLION: Period Drama, Semifinalist, Chesterfield F. P., Carl Sauter Memorial Competition. From 1861-62, President Lincoln's greatest concern was not the Confederate Army but the cunning woman and her 8 year-old daughter who led the largest spy ring in U.S. history. Based on the true story of Rose O'Neil Greenhow.
YEAR OF BLOOD: A Period Adventure-Drama. Adapted from Victor Hugo's Ninety-Three, a masterpiece of fervor, irony and conflict. An aristocrat leads a peasant army against his nephew's regiment of revolutionaries in a heroic struggle to win France. It's Victor Hugo at his very best.
GHOST OF A CHANCE:"Even a ghost needs to have survival skills!" A family action comedy in the vein of Home Alone meets Ghostbusters.
DEAD QUIET:"Beneath the deadly silence lies an unspeakable evil." Misguided by an intense occultism, an overbearing mother prods her daughter into achieving artistic success, only to have a dark secret from years ago surface, traumatizing her daughter and turning her into an instrument of insatiable vengeance.
BOUND FOR GLORY: Sports Dramedy (Rowing), Semifinalist, Chesterfield F. P. (Novel & Screenplay). When an unemployed construction worker decides to get even with a pair of arrogant oarsmen who cost him his job, he sets off a chain reaction that has devastating - and surprising - repercussions for an Ivy League pre-med student.
- Wrote & directed Let Us Live In Your World 30-minute documentary for Martial Arts For the Handicapped
- Wrote & directed Within These Walls 30-minute documentary for the Cell-F Help Foundation.
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